Censuses and interrogations as instruments of power in political communication in Spain in the 16th-18th centuries

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Carmen Solano García
Agustín Vivas Moreno

Abstract

Censuses and interrogations of the population constitute an important instrument of political communication. With this as our starting point, this study aims to make a historical review of state censuses and interrogations in Spain during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and then analyze the relationship between information and power during the Enlightenment – a time that we consider of special interest to analyze the means of political communication to which we refer.

Keywords:
Census, Interrogations, Political Communication.

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Carmen Solano García, Universidad de Extremadura, Facultad de Documentación y Comunicación

Profesora Titular de la Facultad de Documentación y Comunicación de la Universidad de Extremadura.

Agustín Vivas Moreno, Universidad de Extremadura, Facultad de Documentación y Comunicación

Profesor catedrático de la Facultad de Documentación y Comunicación de la Universidad de Extremadura. Doctor en Documentación.

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